Welcome to Teaching Classical Languages (TCL). TCL is the peer-reviewed, online journal dedicated to exploring how we teach (and how we learn) Greek and Latin. TCL is sponsored by the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS).

Welcome to Teaching Classical Languages (TCL). TCL is the peer-reviewed, online journal dedicated to exploring how we teach (and how we learn) Greek and Latin. TCL is sponsored by the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS).

Thank you very much! It appears to be useful even for those who don't teach others. For example, by quick browsing I found two interesting articles.

Hoyos wrote:The second drawback is still more damaging. Translating-to-understand encourages learners to assume—and encourages them, to the point of making it a fixed reflex—that the proper medium for understanding and absorbing Roman literature is English. Mature and responsible minds may slowly grow out of this, but when it is the implicit message from the beginning, and then is reinforced at every further level, it is a reflex that most find themselves indoctrinated in forever. This is killing to any in-depth comprehension of a text. Words and, still more important, word-groups are scanned to work out how they can be restated in English (or whatever the translator’s language is), rather than for their interrelationships, implications and allusions. For seeing Latin texts sub specie Anglicitatis automatically means rearranging words and word-groups—mentally at least, often explicitly—to conform to English usages.